Status: Unconfirmed
Owner: [email protected]
Labels: Type-Bug Pri-2 OS-All Area-Misc

New issue 6075 by amandel.seril: Page navigation (not arrow) keys do not  
navigate within lists, dropdowns, or combo boxes
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=6075

Chrome Version       : 1.0.154.42
URLs (if applicable) : http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/list
Other browsers tested:
   Add OK or FAIL after other browsers where you have tested this issue:
      Safari 3: FAIL (common to WebKit?)
     Firefox 3: OK
          IE 7: OK

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Click any list or combo box, or any dropdown, on any page (in the  
example, a dropdown) to give it focus. If the item
is a dropdown or combo box, click it again to collapse it, but be sure it  
still has focus.
2. Press [PGUP], [PGDN], [HOME], or [END].

What is the expected result?
The focused item in the list, dropdown, or combo box should move up  
a "page", down a "page", to the start of the list, or
to the end of the list.

What happens instead?
The keypress navigates within the page.

Please provide any additional information below. Attach a screenshot if  
possible.

Perhaps this is a feature request rather than a bug, but standard behavior  
on Windows browsers, at least within my
memory, is to navigate within page elements when using page navigation  
keys, rather than only navigating the page with
those keys. Text entry boxes handle this normally, but the listed page  
elements do not. However, if a combo box or
dropdown list is expanded when a page navigation key is pressed, the box or  
list handles this normally as well (without
navigating the page).

This is a bit of an annoyance, especially since it precludes selecting  
multiple items within a list by holding [SHIFT] or
[CTRL]; one must, instead, either hold an arrow key or click-and-drag over  
the list to select more than one item within
it. For certain applications, this borders on a "must-have" feature, since  
selecting dozens or hundreds of items in a
list can take an inordinately long time with the existing method.

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